The Admin section of the Pitch Room allows you to customize your homepage and set the general parameters of your account. The following options appear in the Admin dropdown menu:
Custom Branding
Allows you to set the introductory images and project information on the Pitch Room homepage. You can upload opening page graphics and general information about your production here.
News
Here you can submit current updates on project developments, which will be the first message users will see when they log in to your Pitch Room homepage.
User Manager
This chart provides a list of registered Pitch Room Users, designated as Pitch Room Clients. To create a new user, click “Create New User” to take you to the registration page. Input a Username, Password, E-mail address, and User Type [Client or Manager], then click “Create”.
There are three types of users:
1. Administrator - The Admin privilege is assigned to the initial username and password used to sign-up the account. There can be only one Administrator per Project Room. The Admin can create new users and edit anything in a Project Room or Client Area. The Administrator cannot be deleted.
2. Manager – You should create a login and password to give to all your production users, such as Department Heads and Key positions. Managers can access and edit anything in Production files, Locations page, but have no access to the Admin section.
3. Client - Create a special login name and password for clients such as producers or agency clients . They will only see the files which you have marked specifically for them. This allows you to keep your Project room as an active workspace, with file back-up and download options, but also gives you a way to offer a concise presentation to your clients.
Search Preferences
Allows you to narrow the range of your Locations Library searches by geographical region. Select or deselect the checkboxes, which correspond to regions relevant to your production, then hit “Save” at page bottom. Your Locations Library searches will now be limited to the checked areas.
Download Manager
This feature allows you to place, on your computers hard disk, any photosets uploaded to our services. By clicking on the lower right hand check box, when you are in the top level of a photoset collection, and selecting “”Request Backup” the selected photoset will be queued for download in the “Back-up Manager”. The “Backup Manager” can be found in the “Admin” section. This will contain a list of items that are being prepared for download and are ready to be downloaded.
Search Preference
Allows you to narrow the range of your Locations Library searches by geographical region. Select or deselect the checkboxes which correspond to regions relevant to your production, then hit “Save” at page bottom. Your Locations Library searches will now be delimited to these checked areas.
Audit Report
Once you’ve added clients, you can see when they have last logged into the Project Room.
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VisionPitch!
Pitch Rooms are on-line proposals in password-protected websites, where you can include all the information necessary to pitch your upcoming project to potential investors. Film Commissions can use this service to share the benefits of filming in their region with film projects that are searching across North America for the perfect location.
As long as you have the right permissions, a Pitch Room can be seen by your clients 24-hours a day from any computer that has internet access. Similarly, if you are working with a team who are contributing information to the Pitch Room, they can be uploading information from anywhere in the world at any time of the day.
Pitch Rooms are rented by the week and can be renewed indefinitely.